There is no disputing the fact that living personalities move more tickets than dead composers.

The final, spoken coda to the song includes a list of dead composers, as follows:

Before him, the idea of a repertory of past works was foreign to the public; dead composers belonged on dusty shelves.

That or a tribute to dead composers.

"I've got something to tell you," she said as they moved slowly around the little room to a dead composer's love song.

Anniversary celebrations of dead composers send thoughtful listeners reaching for their earplugs.

Pull out any old songs from a dead composer's trunk.

Companies now make their biggest and their easiest money on dead composers whose works still bear copyrights.

But having costumed actors impersonate dead composers is both risky and needless.

Classical music is often associated with composers long dead, but there is a lot of fine material being produced even today.